Can students be trusted?

[Snowy00]

DD is planning to go to university this autumn. Do you think she can trust people with stuff left in a hall of residence communal fridge? She has problem periods - very bad nausea - and the only thing that seems to help (apart from ginger essential oil) is Floradix, which has to be kept in the fridge. I think drunk students would be likely to swig from the bottle - or worse! I want to get her a small fridge for her room but the rest of the family think I'm being ridiculous.

Students that need prescription meds kept in a fridge are allowed mini fridges. Has to be proven though.

Flat shares are different to halls. The halls I was in had shared kitchens used by 20+ people.
If my our DC is only sharing with 4-6 people then it should be okay

Having tasted floradix I can pretty confidently say that no one will be stealing it!!

I got a small fridge for my son when he went off to uni. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, this is about you and your DC.

I love Floradix - makes me feel a million times better - but: it's bloody expensive, so I would be paranoid about it getting nicked too. Didn't know you could get tablets, that's interesting.

People will steal milk for tea. People will steal the odd slice of bread. Cheese is a bit like gold dust. I even once heard of a whole pie being nicked after a drunken night! But disgusting liquid vitamins, nah they'll be fine.

P.S. Don't get a fridge safe if you want her to have any friends in her halls at all. It just screams "I'm precious and uptight"!

Have you smelt that stuff!? I smashed a bottle when I worked in a shop that sold it once and it made me feel sick! I don't think anyone's going to be stealing that

I thought about getting freezer blocks and a small coolbag and just changing the blocks every day for my dd when she goes if there is anything that couldn't be trusted to keep in the communal fridge.

Do you mean that your daughter feels sick when on her period?

@RedHelenB: yes she gets really sick for the first couple of mornings - maybe due to low blood sugar when she wakes up but she feels too bad to be able to eat. Any thoughts?

My dd was tje same and she took herself off to drs for the pill just before her as levels cos she was literally rolling round the floor being sick, and it seemed to be getting worse. Much happier now.

bananapeanut IME, people (students, parents, and indeed the accommodation people at all the universities I've visited) use the term 'halls' to mean 'student accommodation owned by the university' as opposed to privately owned houses students tend to share in 2nd and 3rd years. The vast majority of it nowadays is split into flats of varying sizes.